Nancefield
Nancefield is a railway station in City of Johannesburg, Gauteng and has an elevation of 1,598 metres. Nancefield is situated nearby to the suburb Dobsonville.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mandela House and Hector Pieterson Museum.
Mandela House
Museum
Photo: Moongateclimber, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Nelson Mandela National Museum, commonly referred to as Mandela House, is the house on Vilakazi Street, Orlando West, Soweto, South Africa, where Nelson Mandela lived from 1946 to 1962. Mandela House is situated 1½ km north of Nancefield.
Hector Pieterson Museum
Museum
Photo: Babak Fakhamzadeh, CC BY 2.0.
The Hector Pieterson Museum is a museum located in Orlando West, Soweto, South Africa. Located two blocks away from where student protester Hector Pieterson was shot and killed on 16 June 1976, the museum is named in his honour and covers the events of the anti-Apartheid Soweto Uprising and Massacre, where more than 170 protesting school children were killed. Hector Pieterson Museum is situated 2 km north of Nancefield.
Orlando Power Station
Ruins
Photo: Tim giddings, Public domain.
Orlando Power Station is a decommissioned coal-fired power station in Soweto, South Africa. The power station was commissioned at the end of the Second World War and served Johannesburg for over 50 years. Orlando Power Station is situated 2 km east of Nancefield.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Soweto and Dobsonville.
Soweto
Photo: Digr, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Soweto is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Soweto is an increasingly popular destination for travellers from around the world, and is home of the Nelson Mandela National Museum.
Dobsonville
Suburb
Dobsonville is a township in greater Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. It lies to the west of Meadowlands, a part of Diepmeadow, and is adjacent to Mofolo North and Zondi, which are suburbs of Soweto on its southern border. Dobsonville is situated 5 km northwest of Nancefield.
Zola
Suburb
Zola is a section of the Soweto township lying south of Johannesburg in Gauteng, South Africa. A number of well-known public figures, mostly musicians call Zola their home and were born and bred there. Zola is situated 7 km west of Nancefield.
Nancefield
- Type: Railway station
- Also known as: “Nancefield Station”
- Categories: station and transportation
- Location: City of Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-26.25158° or 26° 15′ 6″ southLongitude
27.90629° or 27° 54′ 23″ eastElevation
1,598 metres (5,243 feet)Network
Metrorail GautengOpen location code
5G59PWX4+9GOpenStreetMap ID
node 9165976948OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationGeoNames ID
972137Wikidata ID
Q124425206
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to French—“Nancefield” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Nancefield”
- French: “gare de Nancefield”
- French: “Nancefield”
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